14.5: Note

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For example, the German-Hebrew writer Micha Berdyczewski wrote that compiling religious texts is a “poetic” (Kagan 223) practice that shines “new light” (Kagan 219) on them. This was puzzling to his friends, who viewed compiling the work of others to be a mundane, non-intellectual task. Also, the twenty-first century writer Jerome Rothenburg talks fondly of his textual assembly as “a pulling together of poems & people & ideas about poetry & much else in the words of others and in our own” (Golding). And the sixteenth century essayist and patchwriter Michel Montaigne says of his own work, “I have here only made a nosegay of culled flowers, and have brought nothing of my own but the thread that ties them together.”

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